slaughterhouse
pronunciation
How to pronounce slaughterhouse in British English:
UK [ˈslɔ:təhaʊs]
How to pronounce slaughterhouse in American English:
US [ˈslɔtərhaʊs]
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- Noun:
- a building where animals are butchered
Word Origin
- slaughterhouse (n.)
- also slaughter-house, late 14c., "place where animals are butchered for market," from slaughter (n.) + house (n.). The Slaughter-house cases in U.S. history were 1873.
Example
- 1. But all this wishful thinking fails at the slaughterhouse door .
- 2. The new strain , identified in a hong kong slaughterhouse , isn 't especially virulent .
- 3. Regulators are concerned because some of those other drugs have been showing up in the slaughterhouse testing .
- 4. Each pig shows up at the slaughterhouse wearing a plastic ear-tag with a number traceable back to its home farm .
- 5. The eggs produced by the geese in hepu are sent to a slaughterhouse for industrial incubation .